The port said the move supports the recently announced Zero Emissions Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA) and recognises front runners in the road to maritime decarbonisation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is vital that the shipping industry makes the switch to zero-emission fuels. The ZEMBA consortium has launched a fantastic initiative with a willingness to pay carriers a premium for the use of zero-emission fuels, which are still more expensive than traditional fuels,\u201d said Boudewijn Siemons, COO and CEO a.i. of the Port of Rotterdam.<\/p>\n
\u201dWith the additional support from our side we want to give carriers maximum incentive to make this switch.\u201d<\/p>\n
Driving sustainability<\/strong><\/p>\n ZEMBA, an initiative of coZEV, recently launched a request for proposals for the transport of 600,000 teu on ocean-going container vessels powered by zero-emissions fuels.<\/p>\n As part of its ongoing efforts to enable and accelerate the transition to zero-emission shipping, the port will offer a port fee reduction for these large container vessels when bunkering sustainable fuels in Rotterdam, which can run to up to \u20ac500.000 in total.<\/p>\n To qualify, a ship has to bunker alternative fuels in Rotterdam with at least 90% reduction in greenhouse gases, such as green methanol or ammonia.<\/p>\n The discount does not apply to bio-blended fuel oil, marine gas oil, or marine diesel oil.<\/p>\n Rotterdam already extends discounts to more sustainable vessels that score high on the Environmental Ship Index (ESI) and is an international front runner in facilitating the bunkering of zero-emission fuels.<\/p>\n In 2022, the port launched a Green & Digital Corridor project together with the Maritime Port Authority of Singapore, which also offers discounts for carriers using sustainable fuels.<\/p>\n This means ships using sustainable fuels on the Singapore-Rotterdam trade lane can now benefit from financial incentives from both ports, as well as ZEMBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Port of Rotterdam is offering\u00a0a substantial port fee reduction for ships that bunker sustainable fuels at the port.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[40,43,264,879,152,364,1260,1259],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alternative-fuels-greenport","category-europe-greenport","tag-alternative-fuels","tag-ammonia","tag-bunkering","tag-green-methanol","tag-port-of-rotterdam","tag-sustainable-fuels","tag-zemba","tag-zero-emissions-maritime-buyers-alliance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3770,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/3770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}